THE STORY OF COCAINE, PART ONE: SACRED LEAVES
High in the Andes, among the Quechua, descendants of the Inca, there is a legend.
THE STORY OF COCAINE, PART TWO: MIRACLE AND MYTH
Cocaine became a cure-all for everything that could be imagined: pain, melancholia, nervous exhaustion, impotence, and neurasthenia, the mental cost of industrial speed.
THE STORY OF COCAINE, PART THREE: WHITE LIES
How One Man’s Racism Created the War on Drugs
THE STORY OF COCAINE, PART FOUR: THE WHITE GOLD RUSH
By the 1970s, Prohibition Turned Cocaine Into Empires
Seven Deadly Sins, Part I: Money
Money can’t buy happiness, but it’s more comfortable to cry in a BMW than on a bicycle.” Origin unknown
Seven Deadly Sins, Part 2: Religion
From the first time our distant ancestors looked at the sky and thought, "Sun good, flood suck," humans have turned to the Gods to make sense of the world and to try to influence it.
Seven Deadly Sins, Part 3: Politics
In 1672 Holland, a very angry and very hungry mob were so pissed off with the wealthy political class that they killed, cooked, and ate their Prime Minister.
Seven Deadly Sins, Part 4: Control
The real division is not between conservatives and liberals but between those who believe they should control others and those who don’t. George Orwell.
Seven Deadly Sins, Part 5: Spectacle
Everything becomes easier not to truly care about when no one can tell the difference between a crisis and a show.
Seven Deadly Sins, Part 6: Consumption
There’s a point in a society’s decline where the people stop eating and start being eaten.
The History of Injecting, Part One: Scar Tissue
Injecting drugs was once perfectly acceptable among society’s elite.
The History of Injecting, Part Two: Wire in the blood.
Fear, Policy, and Disease Redefined the Syringe.
The History of Injecting, Part Three: Nixon’s War and the Bug
The “War on Drugs” was an act of political survival.
The History of Injecting, Part Four: The Damage Done
Since 2001, almost as many Americans have died of drug overdose as have died in every war the United States has ever fought, combined.